THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6îи OCTOBER, 1905.
CHAPTER II,
1495
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE
VARIOUS GRADES.
Certificates for Foreign-going Ships, or Ordinary Certificates.
25. A Candidate for an Ordinary Certificate of any grade who has Square- not previously held an Ordinary Certificate of a lower grade must prove rigged that he has served 12 months in the Foreign Trade, or 18 months in the service Home, or Coasting Trade, in a square-rigged sailing vessel."
26. Ordinary Certificates will entitle the holders to go to sea as Mates or Masters of any vessel, sailing or steam.
required.
Value of Ordinary Certificates.
27. SECOND MATE--A Candidate must not be less than seventeen second Mate years of age, and must have served four years at sea.
Onlinary,
28. EXAMINATION IN NAVIGATION.-A Candidate for a Second Mate's Navigation. Certificate will be required :-
(a.) To write a legible hand and spell correctly. This will be tested by not less than a quarter of an hour's dictation.
(b) To write short definitions of various astronomical and other terms, and to draw rough sketches or diagrams to illustrate their meaning,
(c.) To show a competent knowledge of the first five rules of
arithmetic and the use of logarithms.
(d.) To work a day's work complete, correcting the courses for
leeway, deviation, and variation.
(e.) To find the latitude by meridian altitude of the sun.
(f.) To work any practical problem in parallel sailing. (.) To find the true course and distance from one given posi- tion to another by Mercator's method; also the compass course, the variation and deviation being given.
(h.) To find the time of high water at a given port.
(¿.) To find the true amplitude of the sun and the error of the compass therefrom; also the deviation, the variation being given.
(7.) To find the longitude by chronometer from altitude of the sun by the usual methods, computing the daily rate of chronometer from errors observed, when required; also to find the true azimuth of the sun, and the error of the compass; and the deviation, the variation being given.
(4.) To find the true azimuth of the sun by the "Time Azi- muth" tables; the error of the compass; also the devia- tion, the variation being given.
(1.) To find on either a "true" or "magnetic" chart,* the course to steer and the distance from one given position to another; to find the ship's position on the chart from CPOSS bearings of two objects; from two bearings of the same object, the course and distance run between taking the bearings being given; also, the distance of the ship from the object at the time of taking the second bearing.
He will be required to answer rira roce questions on the following subjects:-
(m.) The use and adjustments of the sextant, read off and on the are, and the mode of finding the index error by both horizon and sun.
(.) The International Code of Signals.
The short terms "true" and magnetic" are used for brevity and convenience throughout the Regulations to indicate charts which have e impass ́s engraved upon them showing the true or magnetic points of the compiss respectively.
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